Tennessee 108th General Assembly - Public Acts Search

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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0401 Highway Signs As enacted, establishes brightness criteria for changeable message signs. SB0399
0402 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to investigate certain actions of fraud, theft or misconduct in department programs. SB0176
0403 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, revises and reorganizes laws related to procurement. SB0170
0404 Education As enacted, establishes total initial enrollment cap for virtual schools, with certain exceptions; establishes other requirements related to virtual schools. SB0157
0405 Tennessee Housing Development Agency As enacted, removes provision exempting employees of local governments, public housing authorities and non-profit 501(c)(3) entities from the agency's conflict of interest requirements. SB0122
0406 Education, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to review security procedures for standardized tests given in grades K-12 in the public schools and make recommendations to the general assembly as to improvements that are needed to ensure test security. SB0088
0407 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises the penalties for aggravated assault. SB0066
0408 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, establishes monitoring and audit requirements by the department of finance and administration of the pharmacy benefit manager's compliance with state pharmacy benefit contracts. SB0063
0409 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, revises provisions governing certain agreements entered into between HMOs and physician-hospital organizations where the risks are transferred to the organization or another provider. SB1292
0410 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, revises provisions governing nursing homes that are delinquent in paying an installment of annual nursing home assessment fee; allows for reduction of penalties and interest in certain situations. SB1245
0411 Education As enacted, requires each LEA to develop a policy whereby the LEA provides for an open enrollment period during which parents or guardians may choose from a list of the LEA schools with available space and request a transfer. SB1175
0412 Clerks, Court As enacted, establishes exceptions to the $40.00 fee that is imposed on the receiving of funds paid into court on confirmation of private sales or other funds paid into the clerk pursuant to court order, and collecting and paying out the proceeds; exception applies to certain payments made by court order to any person from funds held by the clerk. SB1089
0413 Criminal Offenses As enacted, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the offenses of drawing and filing a deed without actual ownership of property and filing a lien on property without any legal interest. SB1052
0414 Tennessee Housing Development Agency As enacted, revises the membership of the Tennessee housing development agency and revises other provisions related to the agency. SB1042
0415 Criminal Offenses As enacted, adds to the definition of criminal gang offenses, the commission or attempted commission, facilitation of, solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit the offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts. SB1029
0416 Statutes of Limitations and Repose As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. SB1028
0417 Taxes As enacted, revises the provisions governing the tax exemptions of private act hospital authorities. SB1024
0418 Weapons As enacted, specifies that it is the intent of the general assembly that the general law regarding weapons is preemptive with respect to the transfer, ownership, possession or transportation of knives and that no city, county, or metropolitan government may occupy any part of the field of regulation of the transfer, ownership, possession or transportation of knives. SB1015
0419 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, urges the commissioner of revenue to study the advisability of using the profitability ratio for the type of occupation in determining the amount of the professional privilege tax; requests findings be reported to the finance, ways and means committees by January 15, 2014. SB0982
0420 Real Estate Agents and Brokers As enacted, directs the commission to require all applicants for initial licensure, including but not limited to, a time-share license, to submit a complete and legible set of fingerprints to the commission or to the TBI for the purpose of obtaining a criminal background check from the TBI and the FBI. SB0942
0421 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, permits a region to multiply by three the gross weight of any aluminum cans and plastic bottles that are diverted from Class I municipal solid waste disposal facilities and incinerators located within the geographic area encompassed by the region for purposes of calculating the total percentage waste reduction and diversion that the region has achieved. SB0941
0422 Education As enacted, requires state board to create an occupational diploma for students with disabilities. SB0886
0423 Energy As enacted, enacts the "Energy Independence Act of 2013." SB0852
0424 Employees, Employers As enacted, creates a civil penalty for any construction services provider to misclassify employees to avoid proper classification for premium calculations by concealing any information pertinent to the computation and application of an experience rating modification factor or by materially understating or concealing the amount of the construction services provider's payroll, the number of the construction services provider's employees, and any of the construction services provider's employee's duties. SB0833
0425 Criminal Offenses As enacted, eliminates release eligibility for a person committing attempted first degree murder where the victim suffers serious bodily injury, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 85 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. SB0832
0426 Sentencing As enacted, prohibits any release eligibility for a person committing aggravated child neglect or endangerment, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 70 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. SB0828
0427 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, revises various provisions regarding unemployment insurance, including provisions governing the waiver of the collection of overpayments. SB0783
0428 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, allows dependent children of certain workers assigned to work full time in a foreign nation to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship. SB0719
0429 Education, Higher As enacted, requires THEC to include in its annual postsecondary education fact book a financial disclosure statement accounting for the collection and use of student activity fees; applies to public institutions of higher education operated by the board of regents or the UT board of trustees. SB0687
0430 Drugs, Prescription As enacted, enacts the "Addison Sharp Prescription Regulatory Act of 2013." SB0676
0431 Disabled Persons As enacted, enacts "Lynn's Law"; defines abuse or neglect of an adult to include transporting an adult and knowingly abandoning, leaving or failing to provide additional planned transportation for the adult in certain situations. SB0675
0432 Military As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. SB0667
0433 Controlled Substances As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. SB0614
0434 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, authorizes retired agents or officers of the department of revenue to retain the officer or agent's service weapon and badge under certain circumstances. SB0599
0435 Guardians and Conservators As enacted, revises various provisions relative to court appointed guardians and conservators. SB0555
0436 Criminal Offenses As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. SB0446
0437 Funeral Directors and Embalmers As enacted, requires persons to register on or after July 1, 2013, with the board of funeral directors and embalmers prior to operating a removal service that arranges, directs, supervises or performs the transportation of human remains; clarifies other provisions related to licensure and regulation. SB0416
0438 Sunset Laws As introduced, extends the emergency communications board, June 30, 2014. SB0333
0439 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, requires local education agencies to continue to pay teacher's full benefits including, but not limited to health insurance benefits, for teachers who are victims of violent crime during the course of employment. SB0302
0440 Veterinarians As enacted, revises veterinary practice statute to increase the per diem of board of veterinary examiners; revises supervision requirements for veterinary technicians and modifies requirements for premises permits. SB0265
0441 Annexation As enacted, with certain exceptions, places a moratorium, from April 15, 2013, through May 15, 2014, on annexation by a municipality by means of ordinance upon the municipality's own initiative in order to annex territory being used primarily for residential or agricultural purposes; requires study by TACIR. SB0279
0442 Education As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. SB0264
0443 Criminal Procedure As enacted, specifies that if a petitioner is unable to pay $350 expunction fee, the petitioner may enter into a payment plan with the clerk in order to pay the fee in installment payments; no order of expunction will be granted until the total amount of the fee is paid; requires department of finance and administration to review the number of expunction petitions filed by eligible petitioners, the cost of processing each petition and the amount of money paid in expunction fees. SB0237
0444 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, establishes penalties for surplus lines insurance agents who fail to file tax returns for, or pay, the gross premium tax. SB0150
0445 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises various provisions governing the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages, including provisions governing where distilleries may be located in this state. SB0129
0446 Fiscal Review Committee As enacted, requires committee to include impact to commerce statement in fiscal note for bills and resolutions referred to certain committees. SB0116
0447 Cosmetology As enacted, requires the board of cosmetology to establish rules and regulations for separate schools that specialize solely in natural hair styling, manicuring and the practice of aesthetics; revises other provisions related to cosmetology schools. SB0109
0448 Education As enacted, enacts the "Lois M. DeBerry Alternative Diploma Act." SB0105
0449 Election Laws As enacted, allows county legislative body by resolution to call for run-off election in event there is a tie for county or civil district office; makes it discretionary instead of mandatory for the county legislative body to cast the deciding vote for offices filled by the votes of a single county or civil district. SB0026
0450 Taxes, Litigation As enacted, authorizes Cocke County to levy a privilege tax of up to $4.75 on litigation in all civil and criminal cases instituted in general sessions court, with the proceeds of such tax to be used exclusively for funding the general sessions court and for ensuring compliance with fire codes at courthouse justice center facilities; expires June 30, 2020. SB0024
0451 Budget Procedures As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2012-2013 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $132,500,000 or 1 percent. SB0504
0452 Bond Issues As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $266 million. SB0503
0453 Appropriations As enacted, makes appropriations for fiscal years beginning July 1, 2012, and July 1, 2013. SB0502
0454 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises various provisions in order to implement the annual appropriations acts, such as removing the requirement that in fiscal year 2010-2011 and subsequent fiscal years, the cost per square foot calculation in the capital outlay component of the BEP be reduced by $14.00 per square foot for K-4 classrooms and by $12.00 per square foot for other classrooms and deleting the reserve fund for temporary assistance. SB0501
0455 Boards and Commissions As enacted, replaces the Tennessee council for the deaf and hard of hearing with the Tennessee council for the deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing and revises other provisions of present law regarding deaf and hard of hearing persons. SB1392
0456 Planning, Public As enacted, revises law regarding local contributions to, and state matching funds for, the Memphis area association of governments; revises planning commissioners' continuing education requirements. SB1380
0457 Fees As enacted, requires that a minimum of $1.00 of each tire pre-disposal fee is returned to the county where the fee was collected to be used for beneficial end use of waste tires; requires that counties include in the annual progress report to the department data on how many waste tires it manages and what is done with them. SB1349
0458 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, expands the application of certain requirements under title 57 to hotels that have 20 or more rooms used for sleeping accommodations, rather than 50 or more rooms; allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a facility in Clay County near Dale Hollow Lake that has a kitchen that serves food to customers and is licensed to see beer. SB1345
0459 Consumer Protection As enacted, revises provisions governing the rating of motion pictures and admittance of minors to certain movies; prohibits promoting a motion picture as having a rating other than the rating that has been assigned to it. SB1140
0460 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to develop a proposal for a revised state implementation plan that eliminates motor vehicle inspection testing requirements for all motor vehicles in this state that are three or less model-years old. SB1080
0461 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enacts "Boomer's Law," which revises what constitutes the offense of aggravated assault and revises the penalties for the offense. SB1064
0462 Annexation As enacted, requires annexing municipalities to provide notice to property owners after a court order is entered upholding an annexation, and before the effective date of annexation; makes other various revisions related to annexations. SB1054
0463 Nuisances As enacted, authorizes the court to include in its order of abatement, costs for public services required to abate or manage the nuisance, which may include law enforcement costs, if any, caused by the public nuisance. SB1040
0464 Human Rights As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. SB1036
0465 Sexual Offenses As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. SB1033
0466 Welfare As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services to study issues related to the issuance of a photo identification card to each eligible household in the food stamp and temporary assistance to needy families programs. SB0948
0467 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, for Davidson, Shelby, Hamilton, and Knox counties, revises the definition of "certain unfunded pension obligations" for which such local governments may issue bonds; revises related provisions. SB0875
0468 Sports As enacted, decreases from $50,000 to $25,000, the minimum amount of medical insurance coverage for medical, surgical and hospital care that every promoter of a professional contest of unarmed combat must have to cover injuries sustained by a combatant while engaged in professional contests of unarmed combat. SB0856
0469 Contractors As enacted, clarifies that it is unlawful for any person to engage in or offer to engage in contracting for any project in this state, unless such person has been licensed with the monetary limitation of such license being sufficient to allow such person to engage or offer to engage in contracting pursuant to the licensing laws; revises other provisions regarding construction industry. SB0835
0470 Search & Seizure As enacted, enacts the "Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act." SB0796
0471 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, revises certain present law provisions regarding specific-service signs. SB0657
0472 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, changes the penalties for vandalizing certain highway structures. SB0653
0473 Education, Higher As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". SB0643
0474 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, creates the "Cumberland Regional Business and Agribusiness Marketing Authority." SB0608
0475 Legal Services, Office of As enacted, creates office of the repealer within the legislature's office of legal services. SB0595
0476 Workers Compensation As enacted, exempts from the requirement that all construction services providers carry workers' compensation insurance on themselves a construction services provider who is an individual and who does not meet the other exemption criteria established in present law, but who is a member of a recognized religious sect or division and is an adherent of established tenets or teachers of such sect or division by reason of which such construction services provider is conscientiously opposed to acceptance of the workers' compensation benefits. SB0519
0477 Cosmetology As enacted, authorizes a manicurist to provide manicuring services to an ill, disabled or homebound individual, or to such individual's caregiver, custodian or guardian, in the individual's residence. SB0491
0478 Museums As enacted, revises provisions governing the membership of the Douglas Henry state museum commission. SB0439
0479 Financial Responsibility Law As enacted, increases penalty for violation of the Financial Responsibility law from a Class C misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of up to $100 to a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 when the offender was at fault for the accident resulting in bodily injury or death. SB0251
0480 Taxes As enacted, delays effective date of certain streamlined sales tax provisions until July 1, 2015; makes various technical corrections and exempts certain trustees from the Hall income tax. SB0182
0481 Motor Vehicles As enacted, creates the accurate vehicle identification number (VIN) reporting advisory committee. SB0069
0482 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. SB0064
0483 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs As enacted, creates the "Tennessee STEP UP" scholarship program for postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities. SB0036
0484 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and revises certain present law provisions regarding special license plates. SB0023
0485 Criminal Offenses As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. SB1032
0486 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the industrial development division, building finance committee, June 30, 2014. HB0791
0487 Students As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. SB0477
0488 Election Laws As enacted, allows county election commission to consolidate one or more polling places from one or more precincts upon request from a municipality for a municipal election not held in conjunction with any other election; requires the county election commission, immediately after consolidating polling places from one or more precincts within a municipality, to publish a notice of the consolidation in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. SB1320
0489 Water As enacted, transfers from the comptroller to the department of agriculture certain duties relative to the annual financial review of watershed districts. SB1509
0490 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the board of law examiners, June 30, 2020. SB1526
0491 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the energy efficient schools council, June 30, 2019. SB1540
0492 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Four Lake regional industrial development authority, June 30, 2018. SB1541
0493 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the interstate mining compact, June 30, 2018. SB1544
0494 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the interstate nurse licensure compact, June 30, 2018. SB1545
0495 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the school bond authority, June 30, 2022. SB1552
0496 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the state law library commission, June 30, 2020. SB1557
0497 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the Tennessee public television council, June 30, 2019. SB1577
0498 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, clarifies that observation while securing a firearm or firearm ammunition in compliance with provisions concerning a handgun permit holder's ability to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition does not violate such provisions. SB1700
0499 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the judicial information system advisory committee. SB1546
0500 Sunset Laws As enacted, terminates the Tennessee alliance for fitness and health. SB1563

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